The Shortstack Model; Software Architecture as Strategic OptionalityWalk into almost any legal department or enterprise IT steering committee today, and you will find a group of smart people quietly maintaining a museum of recent enthusiasm.Three years ago, as generative models began showing real promise, the immediate institutional instinct was to convene a committee. Procurement teams drafted hundred-page RFPs,…
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Salesforce, Inc. has launched a new inter partes review at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, filing IPR2026-00476 on September 24, 2026. The petition opens another closely watched PTAB dispute for technology and software-focused patent practitioners, particularly those tracking how enterprise software companies are using the Board to challenge issued patents that may affect core platform, customer relationship management, or…
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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend both the legal theory and prosecutorial conduct behind the federal criminal investigations involving Donald Trump, bringing one of the most consequential recent prosecutorial efforts back into public view.

Although the hearing did not produce a new charging document or judicial ruling, it matters because it puts the…
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For two decades, the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism has collaborated with Illinois’ law schools to lead professionalism orientations for first-year law students.
The professionalism orientations, which are held annually at the beginning of law school, introduce 1L students to the principles of legal professionalism and emphasize the importance of these principles in their careers.
Illinois Supreme Court and…
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The Justice Department’s latest announcements highlight two very different—but equally notable—federal criminal matters: a terrorism-related sentencing in Connecticut and voting-related charges in the Philadelphia area. Taken together, the cases underscore the department’s continued focus on national security and election integrity, while offering useful signals for defense counsel, compliance teams, and organizations navigating federal investigative risk.

In Connecticut, Ahmad Khalil Elshazly…
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The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today issued an opinion in the long-running copyright battle between Thomson Reuters and the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence, but the opinion is, at least for now, sealed and not viewable by the public.The court issued the opinion under seal together with an order stating only as follows:“The opinion in …
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Section 1: Five Realities Reshaping How Corporate Restructuring Gets DoneCorporate restructuring operates at the intersection of legal precision and financial complexity, with stakeholder decisions routinely made under exigent circumstances. More data and shortened timelines have made that work harder. A 2025 study by Harvard and USC law professors published in the University of Chicago Law Review found that the…
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Options, Not Pilots: The Mechanics of AI Capital AllocationThe AI proposals arrive at your executive committee one at a time. Knowledge Management wants to test an agentic research workflow. The corporate group wants automated first-pass diligence. Business Development has found a tool that promises to identify cross-selling opportunities from the firm’s relationship data. IT wants an enterprise platform…
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In our latest TalkingTech product demo, Legal IT Insider’s editor Caroline Hill sat down with Peter Fisher, chief product officer at Morae, for a first look at MorAI Spend, the […]
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For centuries, high-value ownership has been trapped behind a wall of clunky legal paperwork, illiquid secondary markets, and gatekept syndications. If you owned a piece of the Empire State Building, you were married to that asset for seven to ten years—whether you liked it or not.

That reality is dissolving. Ernst & Young projects that asset tokenization could unlock a…
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I’ll confess: When I heard that Jesse Cole, the founder of the Savannah Bananas baseball team, was to be the keynote speaker at 8am’s Kaleidoscope conference, I found myself scratching my head. After all, what could the founder of a baseball team known for dancing players and a senior-citizen dance squad possibly teach lawyers about running a small…
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